Audrey has been showing interest in sewing again - a few weeks ago she asked to make a toy. Yes! After looking around for ideas (ie: me reigning in her wonderfully grand plans to something a little m...
I know it doesnt seem like it but there has been making here lately, just not the bloggy documenting of it. Some of that making has included starting yet another quilt. (I know no one is counting, bu...
This quilt is for Audrey. She carefully chose colours and picked fabric from the stash (although I did throw a little grey & black in there to scuzzy it up somewhat). Its a good challenge, workin...
Lately Ive been tooling around with this quilt. Ive seen a few of these simple H blocks around the traps and - being the mother of an H - knew that a quilt of them would definitely be on the cards at...
Henry turned four a couple of weeks ago, so we made chocolate owl cakes to celebrate again this weekend with my lovely visiting Dad. My little buddy was in charge of smartie sorting and eye placement...
Well. I didnt intend to make that such an long break from blogging. But, you know, once you get out of the habit its difficult to get started again. Ive done a fairly pitiful job of documenting this ...
Making a few more toys to accompany this monkey into my shop before Christmas. (His trousers are made from pieces of an old harris tweed jacket, it was such great fabric to sew with). Organising fair...
My Dad was visiting from out of town last week, so it was a fine occassion for a special cake. I discovered the recipe for this one on pinterest (where else?) - almond & yoghurt cake with blood o...
I made a penguin called Arnold for this years Softies for Mirabel. We love penguins. My kids are particularly bonkers for them - I think its probably something to do with Pingu. (If you are wondering...
Thanks for your nice words after my last post, its been an exciting week! Thanks, too, for entering the giveaway. The random number generator chose Katherines comment as the winner. Thanks Katherine!...
Today my book hits the shops! Up above are pictures of three of my favorite projects from its pages. The monkey is an oldie that I hadnt written the pattern for until now (if you have read my blog fo...
This quilt has been in use for a few weeks now, so it is high time I blogged about it. Ive said lots already about this, based on the one from Lottas Handmade Living. It was a heavy beast to quilt, a...
Last Wednesday afternoon, just as I was walking out the door to do the school pick-up, there it was on the front porch - a parcel containing advance copies of my book. Gulp. I should tell you that th...
Lately...- our two chickens, who have been with us since Easter, started laying flourescent-yolked eggs just when we thought it would never happen.- Henrys love of vehicles has not cooled at all. Nor...
Hello! Its been a few weeks. I have been down and out with the flu, and the kids have had various winter bugs, too. While I was sniffling pathetically on the couch last week, I discovered that...
Because it is the middle of winter (and also because I am easily sucked in by the internet), I have been spending lots of time lately in the evenings cozied up on the couch, clicking away over at Pin...
Im still chipping away at the Lotta quilt. I finished piecing the top over a week ago, and its been awaiting ironing ever since. It took me over an hour to press out all the seams and iron the top! A...
Ive started making a few toys to put up in my online store again. Just a slow start, with Kitty here (who has already found a home), and George, a giraffe who has been keeping me company in my work r...
I love Etsy, but often get caught falling for some ace old thing from the other side of the world. No matter how strong the Aussie dollar, theres no way I can usually justify postage (or air miles, r...
The whole time I was working on my book, I had this quilt in the back of my head. Its based on this one from Lottas Handmade Living - just a patchwork of strips of two different widths. All of this f...
I finally sewed my Umbrella Prints trimmings, but with family goings-on and finalising book stuff, I was - of course - too late to make the competition end-date. The finalists can be viewed and voted...
Youd be forgiven reading back over my posts - or lack thereof - for the past few months, that its been all gloom, all the time for us. But not so. Today I have some happy news to share - Im writing a...
Did you know that Umbrella Prints are holding another of their Trimmings competitions? Make something from one of their trimmings packs (available from their big cartel shop) and up for grabs are loa...
Hello blog, its been a while. I feel bad for letting this place go to wrack & ruin, but things got a little out of hand in my world over the past months. Long spells in hospital for a couple of f...
While things continue to be less than ace for us here at the moment (its not a good time to be related to me, I tell you, I seem to be jinxed!), I thought Id just pop in here to say hello. So, hello!...
Lately with my Mum still quite unwell, there has been a fair whack of doom and gloom around here. Aside from that very important-to-us and sometimes overwhelming fact, I am busy with a big work proje...
While everyone in Melbourne was having fun at Finders Keepers, we in Adelaide had our own excellent makers market to visit last weekend. I couldnt attend Bowerbird as a stallholder this time around, ...
Its Softies for Mirabel time again. A fantastic project organised by the fabulous folks at Mikes. I made this Poppy doll to send off this year, and will probably squeeze a raindrop in there, too. Sig...
Um, hello? I hope you are still there. That was a mammoth blog absence. Busy times, with my Mum in hospital and general life stuff keeping me away from the computer. I always find it difficult to dip...
Ive been working on a new flock of toys. While I was working on this giraffe yesterday, I realised I hadnt mentioned that I am using wool stuffing now - since my motherload of polyfill finally dried ...
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